'It [the BMC] exists to further the interests of mountaineering (not sports climbing) as a whole, and it will succeed in this only in so far as it receives the full support of each and every mountaineer... It should be needless to add that there will be no attempt to introduce anything so foolish as a qualification scheme for 'mountain leaders'.' G. A. Dummett, Pembroke College, Cambridge, 1946.
"No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies." (Daisy Bates)
"It is common to tie them (2 ropes) together with an overhand knot as this is less likely to jam in cracks." (The British Mountaineering Council) http://www.thebmc.co.uk/Feature.aspx?id=1736 (The overhand knot, which has been known to unravel, or, the British Death Knot)
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